Prof. Dr. med. Klaus Eichler

Work at ZHAW

Position

Health Services Research

Focus

Health Services Research with a focus on health economics: Relationship between quality (i.e. patient relevant outcome) and costs Over-/under-/mis-treatment and health economic aspects

Experience

• Lecturer Health Economics
  Zurich University of Applied Sciences
  03 / 2007 - today
• Research Associate: Evidence-based Health Care
  Horten Zentrum für praxisorientierte Forschung und Wissenstransfer
  01 / 2002 - 02 / 2007

Education and Continuing education

Continuing Education

• Decision Analytic Modelling for Economic Evaluation
  University of Glasgow, UK
  09 / 2015
• York Expert Workshop: Quality of Life
  University of York, UK
  05 / 2011
• York Expert Workshop: Economic Evaluation in Health Care
  University of York, UK
  04 / 2007
• Master of Public Health
  Swiss School of Public Health
  11 / 2000

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6384-8223

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Tzogiou, C., Wieser, S., Eichler, K., Carlander, M., Djalali, S., Rosemann, T., & Brändle, M. (2023). Incidence and costs of hypoglycemia in insulin-treated diabetes in Switzerland : a health-economic analysis. Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications, 37(6), 108476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2023.108476
• Grobet, C., Audigé, L., Eichler, K., Meier, F., Marks, M., & Herren, D. B. (2022). Cost-utility analysis of thumb carpometacarpal resection arthroplasty : a health economic study using real-world data. Journal of Hand Surgery (American Volume), 47(5), 445–453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhsa.2022.01.013
• Carlander, M., Rohrbasser, A., Wirth, B., Frei, C., Rhomberg, B., Caviglia, C., Trottmann, M., Eichler, K., & Höglinger, M. (2022). Verbessert ein Disease-Management-Programm die Grundversorgung bei Diabetes? Primary and Hospital Care, 2022(10), 295–299. https://doi.org/10.4414/phc-d.2022.10492
• Höglinger, M., Wirth, B., Carlander, M., Caviglia, C., Frei, C., Rhomberg, B., Rohrbasser, A., Trottmann, M., & Eichler, K. (2022). Impact of a diabetes disease management program on guideline-adherent care, hospitalization risk and health care costs : a propensity score matching study using real-world data. The European Journal of Health Economics, 24(3), 469–478. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-022-01486-2
• Stebler, R., Carmo, L. P., Heim, D., Naegeli, H., Eichler, K., & Muentener, C. R. (2019). Extrapolating antibiotic sales to number of treated animals : treatments in pigs and calves in Switzerland, 2011-2015. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 6(318). https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2019.00318

Other publications

• Stucki, M., Vinci, L., Vetsch-Tzogiou, C., Grobet, C., Cakir, L., Müller, B., Kohler, A., Marzetta, J., Schärer, X., Sharakin, M., Thommen, C., Zemlyanska, Y., Eichler, K., Wieser, S., Kauer, L., Berger, F., Hughes-Brühlmann, S., Boes, S., Mattli, R., & Lutz, N. (2025). Kosten der übertragbaren und nichtübertragbaren Krankheiten sowie Kosten der Risikofaktoren Übergewicht/Adipositas und Bewegungsmangel in der Schweiz. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34672
• Eichler, K., Tzogiou, C., Knöfler, F., Slavik, E., Monteverde, S., & Wieser, S. (2019). Health technology assessment : self-measurement of blood glucose in patients with non-insulin treated diabetes mellitus type 2. Bundesamt für Gesundheit. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-19405
• Höglinger, M., Huber, A., & Eichler, K. (2019). Entwicklung Medizintechnik 2019 bis 2030 : stationäre Rehabilitation & stationäre Psychiatrie. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23035

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Carlander, M., Wirth, B., Trottmann, M., Caviglia, C., Frei, C., Rhomberg, B., Rohrbasser, A., Eichler, K., & Höglinger, M. (2022). Impact of a diabetes disease management program on guideline-adherent care, hospitalizations and health care costs : a propensity score matching study using real-world data. 13th EuHEA Conference, Oslo, Norway, 5-8 July 2022.
• Tzogiou, C., Eichler, K., Knöfler, F., Slavik, E., Monteverde, S., & Wieser, S. (2021). Health technology assessment : self-measurement of blood glucose in patients with non-insulin treated diabetes mellitus type 2. HTAi 2021 Annual Meeting, Virtual, 19-23 June 2021.
• Wirth, B., Carlander, M., Trottmann, M., Caviglia, C., Frei, C., Rhomberg, B., Rohrbasser, A., Eichler, K., & Höglinger, M. (2021). Impact of a diabetes disease management program on guideline-concordant care, hospitalizations and health care costs : a propensity score matching study using real-world data. Swiss Public Health Conference, Bern, 25.-26. August 2021.
• Joeris, A., Höglinger, M., Meier, F., Knöfler, F., Scholz, S., Brügger, U., Denk, E., Gutzwiller, F., Prein, J., Renner, N., & Eichler, K. (2019). Health economic impact of the technology “osteosynthesis” on fracture care : an economic analysis for 17 high income countries over the course of 60 years [Conference presentation]. Value in Health, 22(Supplement 2), S218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2019.04.1010
• Grobet, C., Audigé, L., Eichler, K., Meier, F., Wieser, S., & Flury, M. (2018, June 6). Is arthroscopic rotator cuff repair cost effective? : a prospective Swiss health-economic study. 78. Jahreskongress Swiss Orthopaedics, Montreux, 6.-8. Juni 2018.

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